Research, thinking and ideas...

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'Contextually Sited Contemporary Arts Practice in Rural Areas'

In this article Veronica Vickery looks at current examples of practice in rural areas following an R&D trip to Grizedale Arts and Allenheads Contemporary Arts last August.

She proposes that practice in a rural area is diverse and inter-texual, and can not be adequately defined in terms of its rurality or by a juxtaposition with the urban:

'So what is happening in the far flung cliff tops and hills of this land? There is no one thing that could be said to embody practice in a rural area – the processes and outcomes are as diverse as practice in any city. However they do seem to have critical processes, artist strategies in common that are often a response to the challenges of working in peripheral locations… '

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This article was commissioned by artcornwall.org

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'Bosigran Arts: A Vision?'

What is BOSarts about? What is our vision for the organisation, for the making of work within this context?

We got together in June to play with ideas... In many ways we are quite a disparate group of people, so this was a timely opportuntiy to meet up without an agenda and to bounce things off each other. Some of us were better prepared than others...

Rebecca Weeks put together this paper to help focus the discussion... In this paper, she takes us through a journey that moves from the idea of visioning to belief and knowledge, to exploring some of the paradoxes and dichotomies "around hierarchies of knowledge and the paradoxes of place" of site specificity.

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